At 09:45 AM 6/11/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Actually, this presents a problem. Most whois clients only look at the
>single registry, assuming one registrar per TLD and they do NOT
>differentiate between registries and registrars, as that is a recent
>distinction. Certainly, whois does not understand that there may be
>multiple whois servers to search for a TLD.
>
>The compatible answer is for the SRS to update the registry at all
>times, with sufficient information to populate whoisd. Also, a whois
>client can be updated and distrbuted, but that will take a while to
>propogated through the net (years). It is much better to fix it on the
>server-end. This is also part of database synchronization, IMTO (In My
>Technical Opinion). It indicates an ill-thoughtout architecture or an
>incomplete implementation.
>
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>Roeland M.J. Meyer
>Morgan Hill Software Company, Inc.
>http://staff.mhsc.com/~rmeyer
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Owner-Domain-Policy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>> Behalf Of John B. Reynolds
>> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 9:15 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: have you check your company lately
>>
>>
>> So, if one cares only about whether a domain has been
>> registered and not by
>> whom, one should just query whois.crsnic.net.
So click on http://whois.crsnic.net and see what happens.
I've tried several times today and got nuthin' -- the old
"not responding" bit.
Bill Lovell
